{"id":29768,"date":"2011-12-09T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/russell_smith-shame_on_us_the_invention_of_sex_addiction\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:00:36","slug":"russell_smith-shame_on_us_the_invention_of_sex_addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29768","title":{"rendered":"(Globe and Mail) Russell Smith&#8211;Shame on us: The invention of sex addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Please note&#8211;the content of this article may not be suitable for some blog readers&#8211;KSH).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The invention of sex addiction reflects the culture\u2019s deep-rooted fear that too much sex without commitment is bad for you.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, there\u2019s no proof of that. In fact, sex addiction isn\u2019t even an accepted disease among most psychiatric and psychological organizations in the world. The American Psychiatric Association no longer includes it as a pathology in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. This is largely because there is no consensus even among researchers of exactly what an addiction is \u201d\u201c there are as many definitions of addiction as there are treatment centres&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/russell-smith\/shame-on-us-the-invention-of-sex-addiction\/article2263188\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Please note&#8211;the content of this article may not be suitable for some blog readers&#8211;KSH). The invention of sex addiction reflects the culture\u2019s deep-rooted fear that too much sex without commitment is bad for you. Interestingly, there\u2019s no proof of that.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29768\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,207,168,93,155,129,424,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-movies-television","category-other-faiths","category-psychology","category-secularism","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}